Gunnar Kaufhold is the winner of this year's Nude Sledding Championship, held in Braunlage, Germany on 19 February. Perhaps because it is not a discipline in the Winter Olympics, it has not yet made the international news but a web search will give you photos and videos of last year's event.

Contestants: 26 (13 men and 13 women, drawn by lot from 400 applicants)

Visitors: approximately 14,000

Temperature: minus 5 degrees Celsius

Length of run: 90 metres

Theme song of the championship:

www.mdn.fm/files/263654_phroq/Peter%20Wackel%20-%20Vollgas.mp3

Edited February 20, 201115 yr by Puccini

There's a short video of the championship on YouTube now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GyEX4u9H7s